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Epigraph: Courage is like love, it feeds on hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte
[first of 8 epigraphs]
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Inheriting the World : German Exiles, Napoleon's Campaign in Egypt, and Australia's Multicultural National Identity
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Scenes of Reading : Is Australian Literature a World Literature? 2013; (p. 156-167)Lynda Ng reads three Australian works (two historical novels and a fictional biography) to demonstrate 'how contemporary Australian authors reflect the rise of global culture by deepening and broadening Australia's historical timeline. The willingness of these authors to show the indebtedness of Australian culture to that of other nations echoes Wai Chee Dimock's attempts to move American literature beyond its national confines by repositioning it on the scale of a planetary "deep time". Paradoxically, however, in these novels the incorporation of historical events that would not traditionally be regarded as Australian does not diminish the preponderance of Australian nationalism. Rather, it enhances the prestige of the Australian nation by representing it as an active participant in a network of cosmopolitan and transnational cultural flows' [pp. 165-166].
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'An Intelligent Conversation of a Structured Kind' with Antoni Jach
Jean-François Vernay
(interviewer),
2008
single work
interview
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 56-62) Etchings , no. 5 2008; (p. 30-46) -
The Fighting Jeans
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 296 2007; (p. 42-43)
— Review of Napoleon's Double 2007 single work novel -
Writers with Readers in Mind
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , October vol. 2 no. 9 2007; (p. 21-23)
— Review of Napoleon's Double 2007 single work novel ; The River Baptists 2006 single work novel ; Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds : A Novel 2007 single work novel ; The Low Road 2007 single work novel -
Heroic Inspiration
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 July 2007; (p. 26-27)
— Review of Napoleon's Double 2007 single work novel
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Lessons from History
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 16 June 2007; (p. 10)
— Review of Napoleon's Double 2007 single work novel -
The Emperor's New Recruits
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 June - 1 July 2007; (p. 33)
— Review of Napoleon's Double 2007 single work novel -
If the Jeans Don't Fit ...
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 July 2007; (p. 26)
— Review of Napoleon's Double 2007 single work novel -
Books Fiction
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 - 8 July 2007; (p. 22)
— Review of Napoleon's Double 2007 single work novel -
Heroic Inspiration
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 28 July 2007; (p. 26-27)
— Review of Napoleon's Double 2007 single work novel -
'An Intelligent Conversation of a Structured Kind' with Antoni Jach
Jean-François Vernay
(interviewer),
2008
single work
interview
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 56-62) Etchings , no. 5 2008; (p. 30-46) -
Inheriting the World : German Exiles, Napoleon's Campaign in Egypt, and Australia's Multicultural National Identity
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Scenes of Reading : Is Australian Literature a World Literature? 2013; (p. 156-167)Lynda Ng reads three Australian works (two historical novels and a fictional biography) to demonstrate 'how contemporary Australian authors reflect the rise of global culture by deepening and broadening Australia's historical timeline. The willingness of these authors to show the indebtedness of Australian culture to that of other nations echoes Wai Chee Dimock's attempts to move American literature beyond its national confines by repositioning it on the scale of a planetary "deep time". Paradoxically, however, in these novels the incorporation of historical events that would not traditionally be regarded as Australian does not diminish the preponderance of Australian nationalism. Rather, it enhances the prestige of the Australian nation by representing it as an active participant in a network of cosmopolitan and transnational cultural flows' [pp. 165-166].
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cEgypt,cNorth Africa, Africa,
- South Pacific, Pacific Region,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1798-1799
- 1781-1784